$The Write Question - Ghost-sick: Danielle Geller resurrects her fractured past in ‘Dog Flowers’$

Ghost-sick: Danielle Geller resurrects her fractured past in ‘Dog Flowers’

01/21/22 • 29 min

This week, Lauren speaks with memoirist Danielle Geller, whose memoir, ‘Dog Flowers,’ is a book not only about her relationship to her late mother, absent for so much of her childhood, but about the strength and complexity of familial ties.

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